d and offal of the goat which we shall
consider here.

Sheep's manure has been used for years on orchards and vegetable
gardens, and in the last few years goats' manure has been in demand,
selling at from $6 to $7.50 a ton, depending upon the purity of the
fertilizer. It must be remembered that only a small portion of this
manure is dropped at the night bed-ground, the balance is evenly
distributed over the land upon which the goats are feeding. The goats
not only rid the farm of objectionable weeds and brush, but they help to
furnish a rich soil in which grass will grow. This fact has been so
thoroughly demonstrated that western farmers, who have large tracts of
wheat or barley stubble to rent during the summer, are always anxious to
get goats upon this land.

OTHER PRODUCTS.

The horns of the goats are used to make handles for pocket knives, etc.
The hoofs are used in the manufacture of glue.

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FOOD, CLIMATE AND PROTECTION.

On the mountains and in the valleys of the United States the Angora has
had a variety of food. He is a natural browser, and will live almost
entirely on brush, if this kind of food is to be found, but he readily
adapts himself to circumstances, and will live and do well upon an
exclusively grass diet. The fact that the goat is a browser has been
made use of in clearing farms of brush and objectional weeds. If a
sufficient number of goats are confined upon a limited area for a period
of time, they will kill most of the brush upon this land. They will eat
almost every kind of brush, but they have their preferences and enjoy
especially blackberry vines and those kinds of brush which contain
tannic acid, such as scrub oak. They do not poison easily, and if there
is a variety of food they rarely eat enough of any kind of poisonous
plant to prove fatal. If, however, they are hungry, and have access to
places where there are poisonous plants, they will eat enough to kill
themselves.

KILLING BRUSH.

If one wishes to clear brush land, he should confine the goats to a
comparatively small tract. The goats kill the shrubs by eating the
leaves and by peeling the bark from the branches and trunks of the
trees. The brush thus deprived of lungs, soon dies and the roots rot. As
fast as the leaves grow they must be consumed, so it is well to allow
the goats to eat most of the leaves off of a limited tract, and then in
order to give the goats plenty of feed, they should be move